They see their wives as mere instruments, not as people to be valued for themselves.

In addition, Marx and Engels charge that bourgeois men treat women as sexual objects who are fair game for anyone. They charge that the bourgeois men feel that they can have any woman they want. They say

Marx and Engels, then, see bourgeois life as hypocritical. The bourgeoisie claim to love their families and believe in fidelity but instead they treat their wives as means of production and all women as their sexual objects.